You have closed their minds to understanding;(A)
    therefore you will not let them triumph.
If anyone denounces their friends for reward,(B)
    the eyes of their children will fail.(C)

“God has made me a byword(D) to everyone,(E)
    a man in whose face people spit.(F)

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For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

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